SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is a Microsoft application that provides integrated management and administration of SQL Server. Nevertheless, SQL Server Express provides a user-friendly interface ...

Microsoft posted on April 18, 2006 the RTM version of Service Pack 1 for SQL Server 2005 Developer, Workgroup, Standard, Enterprise, and Express editions. Get the lowdown on SP-1's added features, ...

When I joined the SQL Tools team as a PM back in October 2018, my top priority was to release SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 18. I expected a fair amount of work but didn’t realize how ...

Beginning in the 18.7 release of SQL Server Management Studio, Azure Data Studio is installed alongside SSMS automatically. Users of SQL Server Management Studio will be able to benefit from the ...

I'm down on SQL Server Management Studio right now. I basically just spent a day trying to swap out the evaluation version of SQL Server 2008 R2 with the Express version, and SSMS just wouldn't ...

I have a test server hosting several sites using SQL Server Express and SQL Management Studio Express. I've seen one site have an occasional issue where queries to a particular table (the ...

While SQL server Management studio is built-in utility for managing SQL Express, it's tricky to install, and I've seen many users being frustrated with that. So why actually bother with that if there ...